Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 91
When her father heard this he did not know how to act, but it was decided that a conclave should be held, and the matter debated at length.
Who acts: father, husband · What happens: hear, not know, act, decide, hold, debate · To what, where: this, conversation, conclave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 act | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 act | mark |
| 12 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decided | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 decided | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 decided | aux:pass |
| 17 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 held | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 conclave | det |
| 20 | conclave | conclave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 held | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 held | aux:pass |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 decided | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 length | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 length | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 matter | det |
| 27 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 length | nsubj |
| 28 | debated | debate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 length | amod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 length | case |
| 30 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | wife's father | this | debated length the matter conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | act | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | decide | past · passive | conversation | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hold | should · passive | a conclave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | debate | participle | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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